Here you go, lovelies! Please leave me reviews, they add to my insanity and they brighten my day! Anyways, here is... chapter 11. It IS cahpter 11, right? Right.
The guys, if you wanted to know, were currently pacing Optimus' office angrily, shooting dirty looks at the Autobot Commander.
"Sending me dirty looks will not help your cause," Optimus growled in frustration.
Luke scowled, glancing at the door, wishing it would open and give them an escape. "He could have killed her by now," he growled.
"He wouldn't harm her. Not with the amount of All Spark energy she carries. If she was harmed, it was only in the attempt of subduing her," Optimus assured.
"It doesn't matter! She should be here!" Kain snarled, glaring at the door as well.
"She is perfectly safe. She probably has free reign of the Decepticon base, even," Optimus said.
"Oh, yeah, because that makes sense. She could just walk out, then," Michael growled.
"No, that is not possible," Optimus said, going much quieter than they had heard him before.
"Why?" Luke asked.
"Because the Decepticon base, the Nemesis, is in space, somewhere around Jupiter," Optimus reported.
Silence. Then the uproar came. "YOU DIDN'T THINK TO MENTION THIS EARLIER?" Luke snarled. Optimus flinched at his tone, but quickly regained his composure.
"I fail to see how this would have helped you," he growled.
"Does it look like we care about whether it could help us or not? She's in space! Actually, she probably won't even mind being kidnapped now, because, I mean, it's space. That's pretty cool," Kain said, shouting at first, then changing his voice to contemplative towards the end.
"Okay, you can't talk about space in a good way. Though, if I had to pick a place to be taken if I were kidnapped, it would definitely be space," Michael complained.
"Guys, focus, she's with Decepticons, and even if they aren't hurting her, she's probably annoying the hell out of them, or they're annoying the hell out of her, either way, the outcome isn't going to be good. Someone is going to get hurt by the end of this," Luke said.
"It's not going to be her! Robots or not, she still is scary as hell when she's angry," Kain said quietly.
Optimus was about to butt in when the door opened and the guys dashed out. "GET BACK IN HERE!" Optimus ordered. You could hear the sharp squeak from their shoes as they suddenly stopped, and the groans after as they trudged back over, glaring at the mech.
Ironhide awkwardly apologized, closing the door firmly to prevent any more escapades. "Sir, Lennox and his team are also growing anxious, and we cannot hold them in the Autobot Hanger forever. They will need to be allowed out at some point, and one of them is going to blab," Ironhide said.
"Wait, what do you mean, blab?" Michael asked.
"You did not think that we told the human government of your existence, did you?" Optimus asked incredulously.
"Uh, we didn't actually think about it. We were a little busy with the whole everything that's been going on for a few days," Luke said. "Why wouldn't you tell the government about us?"
"How well do you think they would take it if they found out that four children travelled across a dimension from the future, and now had technology embedded in their bodies from a different world?" Ironhide growled.
"Not…. not very well. So, why would you be keeping Lennox and his team in the Autobot hanger?" Kain said.
"We are discussing how we should classify her missing status without revealing who she is. The humans are… getting anxious for an answer as to why we have four unidentified beings on base and why one of them has now gone missing. We are also having trouble identifying how you are all connected. According to Captain Lennox, the government might not understand the relationship between three males and a female, though I can't imagine-"
"Put us down as siblings, if you have to. It will be less confusing," Luke said.
"But you do not share blood," Ironhide protested.
"Not all siblings share blood. Some are adopted, some are step-siblings. It doesn't matter, put us down as siblings," Kain said wisely.
"And if we let them think anything different, Caity would kill us," they said together.
Optimus and Ironhide finally seemed to figure out what they were hinting at. "They do realize that you are only children, correct?" Ironhide asked.
"With the way we look now, I'm not even sure that they would realize that we are human," Luke muttered.
"You aren't, though," Ironhide began before shutting up, looking apologetically at Optimus. "Sorry, Optimus."
"It's fine, Ironhide. They would find out soon, anyways," Optimus vented.
"Uh, what would we find out? That we aren't human anymore? I think that everyone can see that, but we still are… what's the word I'm thinking of Ca- oh right, she's not here…. Human-ish," Luke said.
"Human-ish?" Optimus asked.
"Yeah, you know, we still act like humans, not like… well, you guys," Kain supplied.
"Ya act like humans? Weirdest humans I've evah seen," Jazz said, walking in.
"You've seen a lot of them, I suppose. A socially awkward teen, a prep, and trained soldiers. That is such a good reference for human behavior," Luke said sarcastically.
"Don't forget yaselves. With all o' that, I have a great basis for human behavior," Jazz said, just as sarcastically.
"Now I see why you're in her top two favorites," Luke said.
"I thought it was top three," Kain said.
"No, she kicked Prime off the list," Michael said.
"How does Jazz make it on the list, he dies in the first movie after saying two lines!" Kain argues.
"But Jazz is awesome. That's why. Awesomeness automatically puts you on her top favorites list," Luke said.
The Autobots just sat listening to them casually discuss Caity's favorites as though they weren't there.
::Bad luck, Boss Bot. Shouldn't have yelled at her.:: Jazz said over a private comm. line.
::Don't start this, Jazz.:: Optimus warned.
::Aw, is Boss Bot jealous?:: Jazz teased, trying to get a rise out of his superior.
::Jazz, enough.:: Optimus ordered, still calmly.
"But, wait, why did Optimus get kicked off the list?" Kain asked.
"Because he made us break Rule 2," Luke said.
::Really Boss Bot? You made them break Rule 2? Prowler would have had your helm if he heard that!:: Jazz taunted.
::Are you attempting to be more annoying than her?:: Optimus growled.
::Unless you want them to witness you two fighting for no apparent reason, both of you shut your yaps.:: Ironhide snarled over their comm. They quieted.
"Eh, don't worry, Optimus. Caity is incapable of hating someone," Kain assured.
"Is she?" Optimus asked cryptically.
"She says that she only hates one person, and that is her biological mom," Luke said solemnly.
"Why would she-" Ironhide began.
"You'll have to ask her yourself," Luke interrupted sharply.
"Will she tell us?" Jazz asked.
"Yes. She doesn't hide her past. She'll just be super pissed at you afterwards, and you have to actually ask her what happened, not just about her past," Kain said.
"Dude, she didn't tell me," Michael complained.
"You also had just been teasing her and she was pissed already," Luke said, lightly shoving him. "How do you know all of this, anyways?" he asked.
Another mech stepped into the room. The guys stared at him, slack jawed.
"Didn't Caity say that that was Barricade? The Decepticon?" Michael asked distrustfully.
"You know, the one that Bumblebee beat the shit out of and disappeared sometime before the battle started?" Kain added.
"Not to mention kept bothering us when we first got here, and the only reason that we realized who he was was because Caity saw his alt-mode and recognized it?" Luke butted in.
They all glanced at the space where Caity would have been, as though waiting for her comment, but, of course, she was in space, probably annoying the crap out of Decepticons.
"Aren't you missing the polite one?" Barricade snarled.
"Wait, what polite one?" Jazz asked.
"The female," Barricade replied.
This stumped the mechs for a moment. "Caity?" Ironhide finally concluded. He sent out a holographic image. "This girl?"
Barricade nodded. "Yes, that one," he said.
"Are you certain, Cadey?" Jazz asked.
"Don't call me that," Barricade growled. "I am certain. It is hardly difficult to remember the only female in the group," he added, clearly offended. "Why is it that you are having so much trouble believing that?"
"Because she has not proven to be very polite," Ironhide grumbled.
"She NORMALLY is polite to people, it's not in her to be deliberately cruel, but she's kind of been under a lot of stress lately. Can you blame her for being like she has been?" Kain replied.
"Oh, and by the way, CADEY? You guys are on nick-name terms with a Decepticon?" Luke asked, turning on Jazz.
"Of course I'm on nick-name terms with 'im. He's ma mechlin'," Jazz explained.
"Uh, sorry? Yeah, uh, we don't know what that means?" Michael said slowly. Jazz's optics shuttered for a second.
"Oh. Forgot. He's my SON," he explained.
"OOOH," the guys said together.
"I bet Caity knows the who the other parent is," Michael muttered.
"Well, ya will meet him soon, he's on his way ovah from space. Should arrive in a week. If she can tell me his name, then… hmmm, what exactly are we going to bet on," Jazz asks.
The guys look at each other, thinking. "If you wins, we don't bug you for an entire day, if Caity wins, then you HAVE to give her a ride," Luke finally says.
"I get the feeling that that would not bode well with her," Jazz said evasively.
Luke thought about it for a moment. "Fine, then you have to teach her how to drive," he said, grinning.
Jazz would have paled had he not been made of metal. "I get the feeling that that won't bode well for ME," he said nervously.
"What? Are you nervous of teaching a fifteen year old to DRIVE? You can always help her along the way if she messes up, anyways," Michael said slyly.
"Besides, she was supposed to start driving soon, anyways," Kain said.
"I'm being ganged up on. How do you know she'll be okay with this?" Jazz asked, really nervous now.
They grinned. "She won't she doesn't like betting," they said as a team. Luke held out his arm for them to shake on it, and Jazz shook it gently, not wanting to take the entire arm off.
"If she kills me, I'm haunting you," he warns.
"If she manages to kill you, chances are she'll be haunting us before you are even aware that you can haunt people," Luke replied.
"Or, you know, he'll be haunting ghosts because we made her kill him…" Michael said.
"Either way, we're screwed if you die while teaching her to drive, but it's too late to back away now," Kain said cheerfully.
"Back to what we are SUPPOSED to be talking about, what are you doing here?" Luke asked Barricade.
"I have been a spy for the Autobots since the war began. I have "defected from the Decepticon cause" so as to prevent my offlining were I discovered. My information is how Prime knows of the Decepticon base."
"Oh. Do you know anything that's going on right now?" Luke asks.
Barricade nods slowly. "I have an inside source. He is the brother of the symbiote the girl completely destroyed. It was… a very effective way to permanently end him," Barricade went on. "He has been known to fool many with his supposed death that way, and now he cannot."
"Wait, Caity killed Frenzy?" Optimus asked sharply.
"It was a group effort. Samuel's companion beheaded him, and the female, Caity, stomped his helm into the ground," Barricade reported. "No medic could have saved him. He was, what is the human saying, ah, yes, flat as a pancake."
"Did she give a reason for this?" Optimus asked.
"Yes. Apparently she was saving lives, and the time of the soldiers to get help, though I am not sure as to what she was referring to," Barricade said.
Everyone looks at Luke. "What, with Caity not here, you all assume that I know what she was talking about?" he protests. They continue looking. "He was going to get into the Dam and be rebuilt by the Cube and he nearly makes it so the hackers, Simmons, and Sec Def couldn't get help from the Air Force…." he says, rubbing the back of his head sheepishly.
"You've been hanging out with Caity too much, Luke," Kain said, shaking his head.
"Hey, I watched the movie, too! I can remember stuff!" Luke protested. "Besides, you're just jealous that I'm her favorite," he taunted with a smile.
"Because of Alli," Michael snapped. All smiles left Luke.
"Don't. Don't go there, Michael, or I will throw you into the wall and beat the shit out of you," he growled in warning.
The bots wisely stayed silent as to the mysterious name.
"Hey, as long as you don't say it around her, you should be okay. Besides, didn't they make up, like, last year?" Kain asked carefully.
"It doesn't matter. Caity did the right thing, and she suffered for it. That was the first time I ever saw her actually break down. Don't bring it up," Luke growled, narrowing his blue eyes.
"Hey, it was hard on all of us," Kain said.
"Yeah, but you didn't have rumors being spread about you because of what you did," Luke reminded. "Now drop it," he ordered.
They did. "How are we going to get Caity and Sam back?" Michael finally asked.
"Ravage will bring them out. He claims to be loyal to Megatron, but with the death of his brother, on Megatron's orders, he now only claims loyalty to me. He knows what Caity did, and does not blame her, he would have done the same in her situation," Barricade reported.
"Wait, Ravage… Second movie, right, Kain?" Luke asks.
"Isn't that the cat?" Kain asks.
"Yes, Ravage has a cat-like frame," Optimus said before they could get into another confusing and one-sided conversation.
"Oh, Caity and him should get along great, then," Kain said sarcastically.